Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 90
... measures to stop it , but retreated before it with ludicrous haste , blustering and insulting as he re- treated . The English people had been governed during near a hundred and fifty years by Princes who , whatever might be their ...
... measures to stop it , but retreated before it with ludicrous haste , blustering and insulting as he re- treated . The English people had been governed during near a hundred and fifty years by Princes who , whatever might be their ...
Page 94
... measure owing to his exertions that Wendover and some other boroughs on which the popular party could depend recovered the elective franchise , in spite of the opposition of the Court . The health of the King had for some time been ...
... measure owing to his exertions that Wendover and some other boroughs on which the popular party could depend recovered the elective franchise , in spite of the opposition of the Court . The health of the King had for some time been ...
Page 95
... measures , and committed some of the most distinguished members of the Opposition to close custody . Money was raised by a forced loan , which was apportioned among the people according to the The rate at which they had been ...
... measures , and committed some of the most distinguished members of the Opposition to close custody . Money was raised by a forced loan , which was apportioned among the people according to the The rate at which they had been ...
Page 96
... measures abroad . A war was foolishly undertaken against France , and more foolishly conducted . Buckingham led an expedition against Rhé , and failed ignominiously . In the mean time soldiers were billeted on the people . Crimes of ...
... measures abroad . A war was foolishly undertaken against France , and more foolishly conducted . Buckingham led an expedition against Rhé , and failed ignominiously . In the mean time soldiers were billeted on the people . Crimes of ...
Page 97
... measures of the government concerning tonnage and poundage . They summoned the officers of the custom - house to their bar . They interrogated the barons of the exchequer . They committed one of the sheriffs of London . Sir John Eliot ...
... measures of the government concerning tonnage and poundage . They summoned the officers of the custom - house to their bar . They interrogated the barons of the exchequer . They committed one of the sheriffs of London . Sir John Eliot ...
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